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WE are all of us familiar, subjectively within ourselves, objectively by the behaviour of our neighbours, with the signs and symptoms of emotion, and with the fact that such signs and symptoms are more or less under voluntary control and can be suppressed or simulated at will. We are moved to or from an object we may desire or fear. We are moved to laughter or to tears by events witnessed and imagined; and whereas all men are moved in the mass by the same general motives of light and dark, food and hunger, love and hate, we know by everyday experience that no two men react in identical fashion to the same motives.
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WALLER, A. The Galvanometric Measurement of Human Emotion1. Nature 107, 183–186 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/107183a0
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